#380 – Parabol Wrapped 2023

This week we looked at what happened last year in Parabol. Almost everyone has probably seen Spotify Wrapped, which summarizes your year in music. Favorite Band, favorite Song, most listened to genre, etc. These summaries can be fun, embarrassing or even insightful. Bruce, one of our data engineers, thought why not do the same for Parabol? So here we go.

🙋‍♂️ Total user count is at 435,361. That means we gained 123,482 users in 2023, slightly less than last year (128,214). Almost half a million people have so far decided to come onboard 🤯

💬 In 2023 our users started a total of 227,554 meetings in Parabol. That is a 20.59% increase from 2022.

The question now is… What are all those users doing? What do they like to use Parabol for? Let’s have a look at some of the numbers.

It would be interesting to look at the different types of meetings, and see what type is winning.

Out of the total 227,554 meetings:

Out of all those retro meetings, 34% started with a Parabol icebreaker question, and 9.7% had the team health check feature enabled.

You might have seen our AI summary? If you did, then you were part of the 101,526 users (23.32%) that used AI meeting summaries 🙌

Do our users add comments in meetings or do they just discuss via speech, that’s the question. And the answer is a blazingly big YES. Parabol users have made 492,209 comments in total this year. This is a 21.25% increase from 2022. And it looks like people don’t shy away from being open. Only 2.07% of the comments were anonymous.

Ok cool, now we know how many people use Parabol, what templates do they use the most to guide their discussions?

Let’s take a look at the ranking for the most used templates of 2023 and their movement in the rankings since 2022:

If you haven’t used one of those templates, go ahead and give them a try!

And last but not least, where are all of our users from? Here are the top 5 countries of Parabol users:

No changes in our top place, but look at the second place. India is gaining a lot of users, are they in for place #1 next year? Unfortunately Germany had to make space for them, but 2024 is a new chance for everyone 😉

And with that, we are wrapping up the 2023 Parabol Wrapped 😅 (pun intended). How cool would it be if in the future every org could get their Parabol Wrapped? Let me talk to the Product team about that… 😉

This week we saw a significant uptick in weekly meetings, and increases in web sessions as well. We expect these figures to keep ticking upwards as we move deeper into January and more teams are back at work. Last week saw a blip in web sessions and web new users which which was reflected in Google Search Console and due to some shifting keyword positions that we have now recovered.